Z.ai’s open-weights GLM-5.2 beats GPT-5.5 on multiple long-horizon coding benchmarks for 1/6th the cost

It allows engineering teams to host frontier-level AI on their own sovereign infrastructure, entirely eliminating vendor lock ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...
Spectrum News NY1

Public libraries over the next two weeks to begin closing on Sundays

Cuts to the city budget mean public libraries will no longer be open seven days a week, officials said. The last day of Sunday service for the New York Public Library and Queens Public Library will be ...